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Relevance of it with our john allen joining us live from denver. he's a cnn senior vatican analyst and a senior correspondent of the "national catholic reporter" the largest independent news source in america that covers the roman catholic church. good to see you as always on all things related to the vatican. tell us first of all before we get into some of the details, i guess how momentous is this now that we have these new rules? how big of a deal is this? >> well, tj, the truth is that momentousness like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. what the vatican will say is that this is a big ...

Obviously the pope felt he needed to speak directly to the people of ireland in the wake of that. >> what are you hearing so far as far as support for what he did and maybe some criticism for this letter for maybe what wasn't in there? what are you hearing so far? i know reaction has to be coming in. >> yeah. i would say, t.j., the reaction is mixed. on the one hand the letter does clearly address a couple long-standing criticisms of the church. i think a root question from the beginning of this crisis has been simply does the pope get it? does he understand the gravity of the crisis? the lett...